Lani Asunción is a multimedia artist who holds a Master of Fine Arts from the UConn School of Fine Arts. They are the recipient of the 2022 Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant from New England Foundation for the Arts. Asunción is a visiting lecturer at Massachusetts College of Art and Design teaching public art, performance, and Interdisciplinary Studio.

JAZSALYN is an artist exploring data loss, memory restoration, and Ancestral Intelligence through alternative media and re-indigenization. Her work has been supported by Serpentine Arts Technologies, Pioneer Works, and more. She is the Artistic Director of Black Beyond and teaches at The New School, where she has written coursework on African and Diaspora rituals as speculative technology.

Lai Yi Ohlsen is an artist and Internet researcher. Her creative work has been supported by NEW INC, Pioneer Works, Movement Research, Triple Canopy, BRIC and more. She is an adjunct lecturer at The New School and a Senior Product Manager at Cloudflare.

Kristoffer Ørum is a multidisciplinary artist whose work examines the intersection of technology, memory, and imagination. Through innovative uses of AI and digital systems, he explores alternative narratives that challenge social and political norms. His internationally exhibited practice invites audiences to reimagine the possibilities of human-machine collaboration and collective storytelling.

Caroline Sinders is an award-winning critical designer, researcher, and artist. They are the founder of human rights and design lab Convocation Research + Design, and a current BRAID fellow with the University of Arts, London. They’ve worked with the Tate Exchange at the Tate Modern, the United Nations, Ars Electronica’s AI Lab, the Harvard Kennedy School, and others.

Roopa Vasudevan is a media artist, computer programmer, and scholar investigating sociotechnical defaults and protocols, and how they intersect with larger cultural and economic power structures. She has been supported by the Processing Foundation, Eyebeam, and NEW INC, among others, and is an Assistant Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Based at the Digital Democracies Institute at Simon Fraser University, the Data Fluencies Project works to counter the impacts of discriminatory technology and online mis- and disinformation and foster more just and equitable futures. The project seeks to develop an expansive and interdisciplinary approach that combines the interpretative traditions of the arts and humanities with critical work in the social and data sciences to support innovative engagements with (and resistances to) our data-filled world. The 2025 Data Fluencies exhibitions were organized by Roopa Vasudevan, a co-PI on the project.